1. Mike Tyson(Former Heavyweight Champion)
2. Michael Jai White(Actor, Martial Artist)
3. Wesley Snipes(Actor, Martial Artist)
4. Quinton Jackson (know for the A- Team movie)
5. Evander Holyfield(Former Heavyweight Champion)

The fact that he thought he could walk up on stage and slap someone, because his wife was upset at a joke is quite interesting , this is where cancelled culture should strike but let us see if that happens. Never thought I see the day when Will Smith is a bully. 

Again he wouldn’t have done it if he didn’t think he could get away with it while impressing his wife, at the same time….. too bad she doesn’t do the same for him!!!! This should be the final nail, does anyone remember what type of joke Will Smith made on the Arsenio Hall show in 1991? Yes that is right he made a bald joke to which some of the crowd got a little upset, he said “Oh these are jokes come on”

Just like Jada didn’t choose to be bald, this man didn’t choose to be bald either , but he laughed it off because he know Will was joking,  Wow the hypocrisy!!!!!

This event (the slap)  has overshadowed another black man winning an Oscar that night , Will Smith had to do something stupid, Samuel L Jackson is one of my favorite actors, he played a  character so well, I forgot that character was originally white (Nick Fury), that is not what he won for by the way,  he won his first Oscar that night ,Congratulations to him. His award was presented to him by Denzel Washington.

Will Smith should be ashamed of himself

Some say Chris Rock shouldn’t have made a joke like that when he knew very well that Jada Pinkett Smith, had a medical condition.  Interestingly enough , Will Smith thought that was funny initially, but his demeanor changed in a split second especially when he saw that Jada didn’t find it too funny,  So one question I ask is when did Will Smith become “gansta” Will?

 Oh Only when Jada is concern, Will Smith has to suddenly transform into Tupac?   Smith was out of line if you ask me. People are still saying he was joking about a known medical condition , to which I reply, remember Michael Jackson??? Michael Jackson had a known medical condition too, yet most people made jokes about him? He had vitiligo, he first wore one glove to cover it up , (most people thought it was a fashion statement) then he started lightning his skin to even his skin complexion, because vitiligo  will leave spots one’s skin. There is no cure for Vitiligo, that did not change people’s perception and most still found it funny.

He was the joke of the century. So how was it ok for  people , to make fun of Michael Jackson , to the point where they thought he didn’t want to be black. How is it not ok to joke about Jada, and like Chris Rock said that was a nice one,  but everyone Joked about Michael???  Or was it that Michael was more deserving of it. We as a people shouldn’t pick and choose who deserves what , based upon who we like at the moment. 

He didn’t have this energy for her “entanglement”, he didn’t even smack August Alsina, for coming into his matrimonial home and sleeping with his wife. Someone answer this question for me , which is more twisted? the fact that Will did what he did in front of their children or the fact that a married woman slept with her son’s friend???  well your guess is as good as mine. Chris Rock was very classy about the situation if you ask me !!!!!. 

So it’s ok to sleep with his wife , as long as you are not making jokes about her. In his acceptance speech, he almost described it as abuse, but he didn’t have these harsh words for August, we never heard him say “Keep your f—— hands of my wife”!!!!!!!!!!. SICK AND TWISTED

Will Smith was out of line , but I do believe there is a big possibility that this was staged, regardless of if it was staged or not, this made black men look bad, maybe this is to get Chris Rock on Red table talk, who knows. Will Smith is the kind of black guy people wanted their sons to be like , even when he was a rapper , He was non violent , Even Eminem said it with that famous line “Will Smith don’t got to cuss in his records, well I do” and he was the first rapper to win a Grammy award, now we have this……Will Smith shouting F- Words like Tupac????. Funny enough Jada Smith was “friends” with Tupac.

The point is there were 2 different Will Smiths, that night, the one who thought the joke was funny and the one who thought he should do something because his wife was upset. In his acceptance speech , he said Love make you do crazy things, to that I agree.

He still loves this woman , but he has some deep issues and Chris Rock is not to blame for that.

Funny Chris Rock even dressed up as a woman on “Fresh prince of Bel Air”. They have been friends for a long time, so what happened ??? this is the question that anyone with half a brain should be asking.

Let us pay attention to the mood swings, they did not want Kanye West at award shows because of his ONLINE behavior, we also remember when Kanye and Taylor Swift had that confrontation.

Do We seriously think Will would have done the same thing , if it was someone like Jimmy Fallon making a joke like that ?

and I know what people are going to say but if you have listened to Jimmy Fallon’s jokes, he has said worse things about people. People always joke about public figures, no matter what they are going through.

One minute Will Smith was laughing next he was so angry, and finally he was crying ,  hmm And we all thought Kanye was the crazy one!!!!!

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There is a reason for such a title,  we expect to be told everything in school, till this day most people will base their inability to think on the school they went to rather than their experience and inability to recognize an opportunity.  Most people who have made it or are on the way to making it took advantage of opportunities that came their way or created opportunities for themselves. Sometimes when there are no opportunities available.  I will mention a few names in the course of this article.   The way we think makes a very big difference in how we act and perceive a lot of things.

Like most of my articles in recent times this will be a  short article but very thought-provoking,  I wonder why we think that because certain things are not taught in our schools, that equates to us not succeeding in our endeavors, ask any business owner will tell you, they prefer experience over degrees, they prefer people with the ability to complete a certain task rather than them wasting money to show them around. Businessmen will rather hire people who can think on their feet rather than ask for thought assistance every minute.

Let us begin,  the first question we should be asking is, what practical knowledge do we possess? Most of the knowledge we possess isn’t practical,  because more often than not we like to or should I say we love history but don’t make use of it,  This is what I mean….

Take someone like Reginald F Lewis, Most people of today couldn’t tell you who he is or was.  but he was the first black man to build a Billion dollar business, it wasn’t being done before him, note that I said the first black man/person to build a billion-dollar business, I never said the first black billionaire.  I think everyone should read about this man, and then see how he was able to do something that was unheard of at that time, sadly people like him are not with us anymore.

Bernard S Garret SR,  was the first black man/person to own a bank and was actually controlling white banks, this is a man with an 11th-grade education, and more importantly, he did it in the era of Jim crow, yet he was able to outsmart people who were college-educated, he was one of the wealthiest black men of his time.  He had a partner in a business called Joseph B Morris who was already a successful businessman.  Bernard S Garret was very good at math and we know as engineers and mathematicians, problem-solving skills are a must, so he looked at what was against him and said hmmm how do I solve this?   He did it, and it is because of him certain laws were changed, brothers and sisters, most of the time we ask what can be done for us when life is all about figuring out how to solve certain problems.

Before I end this who remembers thriller by Michael Jackson,  well fun fact, in the 80s black people were not given fair play on MTV, he came up with a video that was so good, that they had no choice but to show it on MTV,  you know you created something when white children gathered around their TV to watch Thriller,  The difference between these people and us today is that they didn’t know “it” couldn’t be done!

“The only time a man is really rich is when he controls money”- Bernard S Garret SR

By Anthony Mills and Jesus Kotei

The funny thing about all this is that most people see the glamour and the glitter and they equate everything to it.

No matter how many times this is said, people will still get the wrong misconception. Being Rich, being wealthy, and being famous are 3 different things.

Sometimes these 3 intersect, sometimes they don’t.  Most people think that once you get fame everything else is added to it which could be further from the truth. They think once you are famous, you get the women and the money.

With this issue, people will be dismissive and say, “Oh, Kanye is crazy, he doesn’t know what he is talking about, but he posted a contract for us to read,  I must say it is a 100 page contract, so no one is really going to spend time reading it. The few who read it know it was almost an unfair deal. The more important question should be, is Kanye telling the truth? YES!!. It is said that Jay Z had to “sell out” his own brother in order to get his own masters back.  Jay could have got his masters back by other means,  like re-recording his music so he can own them, (Prince said he was going to do that, on an interview with Larry King,  I don’t know if he actually did it, Taylor Swift also said she was going to do the same thing). As far as the contract, I will leave that part to you the reader. Year after year the story seems to be the same,   a lot of people don’t know that  Notorious B.I.G ( Biggie Smalls), and Tupac Shakur, died broke, they didn’t make enough money, from their own music. 

The question we should all be asking is, “is it worth it “?  Is the music industry really as shady as they make it out to be or are some of the artists just overspend money that is recoupable?  Do these artists really possess the talent and creativity to produce and write their own songs, or we just see them as something they are not? Take a case like R Kelly, despite what you think of him, just based on creativity alone, he shouldn’t be broke! Sadly he is because he trusted the wrong people after all.  Mc Hammer shouldn’t be broke, he is one of the few rappers that actually sold  10 million copies, and above(diamond amongst people like Tupac,  Notorious BIG, and Eminem, just to name a few.  For those who don’t understand how important diamond status is, this means the album or single sold 10 million copies and above. We have people like the Beatles and Elvis in that category, and a few African songs like ” sweet mother” which sold more copies than the Beatles best seller. This is how rare and important that is.

At the end of the day, we can’t blame the industry too much for what they do, after all, they are in this to make money, they could care less about fame.  Personally I think it is up to the artist to learn as much as they can, so they can start making their own money. If that doesn’t happen we will hear the same story again and again.

There have been a few people that have actually helped musicians and the music business as a whole.

Michael Jackson,  Master P, Wendy Day,  and believe it or not Donald Trump.  yes, our 45th did more to help musicians even more than Jay Z ever has, by signing  The MUSIC Modernization ACT.   He used executive privileges to sign this into law. This targets the streaming services, of course, they didn’t like that.

That ACT forces, streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify to pay royalties to the artists/songwriters/engineers,  back then Streaming services including Jay-Z’s Tidal were not paying artists/songwriters/engineers, when their material is played on streaming services. Spotify tried to retaliate by suing songwriters, I’m yet to be updated on that particular lawsuit.

One of the ugly truths also is that most people don’t know that they make more money in their 9-5 than their favorite artists. You can read Kanye’s contracts by clicking the link below

KanyeContracts(Full)